CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal, Research Grant. National Working Group on Kenya: To Research on Democrat Transition in Kenya. November 2002

UNESCO's continent-wide Africa Book Project; commissioned to write one of the volumes on the African Indigenous Education Textbook Series (2002-2004), UNESCO Education Institute, Hamburg, Germany. Received award in Gaborone, Botswana, August 2002

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Grant on Research in "Conflict Areas" for Research in the Ilemi Triangle of East Africa (together with Kenneth Inyani Simala), August. 2002

University of Illinois, Department of History. Conference Travel Grant, 2001

Conference Travel Grant, Institute of Global and Cultural Studies, State University of New York, Binghamton, April, 2001

Conference Grant, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, March, 2001

J.W Fulbright Junior Scholars Fellowship, 2000-2002

Research Grant from Action-Aid Kenya to investigate “the Problems of Cattle-Rustling in Northern Kenya (1998-1999)

Association for World Education (AWE) Research Grant on Research on Women in Mining Areas in Kenya, 1998

Fellowship sponsorship from the Democracy Fund of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to attend a workshop on "Globalization, Lifelong Learning and Active Citizenship" at Copenhagen, Denmark (27 April – 14 May 1997)

Grant from the International Consortium on Experiential Learning (ICEL) to attend Seminar at Cape Town, South Africa (June 1996)

Grant from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the University of Western Cape, South to attend an conference on Adult Education and Training in Reconstruction and development: Lessons from the South and the North held in Cape Town, South Africa in November, 1995

Won Award Competition on Program on Governance and Peace, and Professional Development Fellowship (PDF) University of Florida, Center for African Studies, Gainesville, U.S.A.15th December 1994 administered by the University of Florida on behalf of the Ford Foundation, 1994

University of Nairobi Post-Graduate Scholarship, 1989 – 91

Government of Kenya Scholarship for Undergraduate study at the University of Nairobi, 1986-1989